This is amazing. Not only has Google just opened up the pre-order program for Google Glass to 'creative individuals', it has also unveiled what the user interface looks like and how it works. It's... Nothing short of amazing. I'm throwing money, credit cards, my car keys, my house keys, my Surface RT, my cats, everything at my screen. I want this so bad.

What they have now is interesting, but it falls short of the original promise. I guess we just have to wait a few years for enough processing power to do the face recognition, text recognition, and other computer vision applications. For example, it would have been so much cooler in the video to have glass translate the Chinese characters on the sign rather than using a voice command to ask for a translation from English into Chinese.

Most of the processing would be done in the cloud and smart phones have been able to do the camera based translation for a little while already. So I suspect there were usability reasons for not having auto translate (possibly because it would result in so much data on screen that it's overwhelming for the wearer?)